Backend Software Engineer, Curve
Golang
+ Employee share options package
Banking platform consolidating cards & accounts
Job no longer available
Banking platform consolidating cards & accounts
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
+ Employee share options package
201-500 employees
Company mission
Curve is on a mission to simplify the way people spend, send, see and save money.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of software development experience
- In-depth knowledge of more than one software language among Golang, Java, C++, with Go experience preferable but not essential
- Experience of building microservices; ideally deployed in Docker containers on Kubernetes
- Experience of agile development practices
- Experience with RDBMS & NoSQL datastores
- Bonus points for previous payments experience, especially with card processing and/or real-time payment systems
- Ability to diagnose problems at any level (Client, HTTP/Network, Server, Database, OS)
- Demonstrable experience of building large concurrent applications
- Experience of developing and running large scale production environments in or closely with DevOps / SRE
- A genuine interest in working in a fast paced startup and ideally Fintech
- Voracious appetite for learning
What the job involves
- Payment engine: we are enhancing our payment processing architecture to further leverage cloud capabilities, microservices, events etc
- API as a product: we are creating a new set of APIs to allow internal (and later, external) teams to access the powerful features of the platform
- Alternative payment methods: we are extending our capabilities into non-card payments such as Open Banking
- Payouts and remittances: we want to leverage the ever-increasing coverage of real time push payments for P2P and B2C payments
- Request to Pay: as an alternative to card payments and direct debits, we see great potential for RtP
- Smart Rules: using the rich data set that we collect to make better decisions about preferred payment methods
- Delivering clean, architecturally sound and maintainable server-side code; bonus points for full-stack development experience
- Collaborating with stakeholders in the company to rapidly build-measure-learn a world-class product
- Working with our scrum masters to constantly iterate on the company’s development processes
- Motivating the team past roadblocks to make sure we are shipping features as effectively as possible
- Guiding design discussions; being the voice of experience with helping the team balance flexibility, expediency and scalability & performance
- Contributing to the current move away from monolithic architecture to microservices
- Championing new technologies and enforcing the best development patterns
- Keeping a keen eye on the future, whilst making sure we’re proactively but pragmatically tackling technical debt
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Keeping track of spending across multiple credit and debit cards can be a difficult task. Curve lets customers consolidate all of their bank cards into a single card and app, to make it easier to manage spending and access other benefits.
Curve is following in the footsteps of several European neobanks, including N26, Monzo and Revolut, with ambitious expansion plans for the US. Americans have seven to eight cards on average and they typically love rewards, making the market attractive for Curve.
The company has a track record of responding quickly to consumer wants. For example, it has launched cryptocurrency rewards programs to cater to the ever-growing ‘crypto-curious market', as well as partnering with both Berg Watches and Fidesmo to meet expanding demand for wearable payments. In 2022, Credit Suisse backed a $1 billion credit facility for the company, to enable it to scale its lending business.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
33% female employees
-24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2023
$72.7m
SERIES C
May 2021
$11.4m
LATE VC
Total funding: $248m
Company benefits
- 20 Days Vacation (we actually want you to take this)
- 10 Paid Holidays
- Work from home opportunities
- Competitive salary with employee share options package
- Free Curve Metal subscription for you and +1
- Generous yearly Learning and Development budget
- 10 days per year for training and conferences
- Unlimited book policy
- Life insurance
- Health care cash plan
- Life coaching
- EAP services
- 24/7 GP access
- Annual subscriptions to Calm & FIIT for your mind and body
- Discounted gym membership
- Ride to work scheme
- Nutritionist access
- Discounted shopping vouchers
- Season ticket loan
- Bonus days off for your birthday, moving house and Christmas
- Six nights of Night Nanny for new parents
Company values
- Customer obsession - Start with the customer and work backwards to create meaningful experiences
- Communicate and collaborate - This helps us unify and align so we can move quickly and be empowered
- Challenge everything - Yourself, your colleagues and the status quo. Commit and progress forward together
- Build. Measure. Learn - Strive to learn and find the 'why' to measure our impact and constantly improve
- Automate to accelerate - Eliminate redundant steps to get things done and always focus on the mission
Company HQ
Paddington, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Shachar Bialick
(CEO & Founder)Was Head of Product at Checkout.com. Founded a number of businesses in Israel, and has an MBA from INSEAD.
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